Academy Of Ancient Music

The Academy of Ancient Music is one of the world’s foremost orchestras specialising in period music. The orchestra enhances the lives of thousands of music lovers each year through unique baroque and classical performances, in the style intended by composers and on period-appropriate instruments.

Since 1973 the Academy of Ancient Music has sought to reinvigorate period music by stripping away modern conventions that undermine the authenticity of classic pieces. Their work further bridges the divide between musician and audience and now the AAMplify new generation scheme is attracting new younger audiences eager for inspirational listening experiences.

In the 1990s, Robert Levin's recordings of Mozart's Piano concertos with the AAM were game-changing - not since Mozart's lifetime had any pianist dared to perform these works with such innovative improvisational flair and brio.
Ahead of his performance with the AAM in February 2015, we look back on Levin's unique musical legacy.
Mozart Piano concertos Nos.24 & 25
4 February 2015, 7.30pm
Barbican Hall, London
Tickets £10-35 (£3 for AAMplify members)
Book at barbican.org.uk or call 020 7638 8891
For more information visit aam.co.uk/concerts
Excerpts - Mozart Piano concerto No.26: Academy of Ancient Music, Robert Levin; On the Edge: Derek Bailey, Channel 4.

It wouldn't be Christmas without Handel's Messiah! Soprano Ailish Tynan tells us about her experience singing this festive favourite, and why she thinks we keep coming back to the Messiah nearly 275 years since its premiere in Dublin in 1741.
Handel's Messiah
10 December 2014, 7.00pm
Barbican Hall, London
aam.co.uk/concerts
Filmed with kind permission at Handel House Museum, London

Ahead of our performance of Handel's Messiah at the Barbican Centre, we talk to bass-baritone Stephan Loges about what the piece means to him and why it has become such a perennial Christmastime favourite.
Handel's Messiah
10 December 2014, 7.00pm
Barbican Hall, London
aam.co.uk/concerts
Filmed with kind permission at Handel House Museum, London.

We catch up with rising-star conductor Gergely Madaras ahead of his period-instrument debut with the AAM later this month.
Come hear this exciting talent conduct the music of Mozart and Gluck on:
24 November 2014 at West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge
25 November 2014 at Milton Court Concert Hall, GSMD, London
For full details visit aam.co.uk/concerts
Music: Mozart Symphony No.1, Allegro (Birth of the symphony, AAM Records)
Filmed with the kind permission of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama at Milton Court, London.

As we prepare for our semi-staging of Monteverdi's L'incoronazione di Poppea at the Barbican, 4 October 2014, we talk to counter-tenor Iestyn Davies about his character Ottone, the man Poppea leaves behind to ascend the throne.

As we prepare for our semi-staged performance of Monteverdi's L'incoronazione di Poppea at the Barbican, 4 October 2014, this film explores the character Ottavia, interpreted in our production by Italian mezzo-soprano, Marina de Liso.

We're delighted to announce the newest release on AAM Records, AAM003 JS Bach's Orchestral Suites, available world-wide from 4 November 2014.
The Orchestral Suites are a series of grand and graceful dances, paying homage to the French baroque style as championed by the ballet-obsessed King Louis XIV. Written during Bach’s years in Leipzig, where he had a wider range of instruments at his disposal than ever before, the Suites revel in new sonorous possibilities and employ varied combinations of wind, brass, stringed instruments and timpani.
In this video, watch the Academy of Ancient Music perform the Orchestral Suites live, accompanied by an exclusive preview of the orchestra's spirited recording of Bach's magisterial "ouvertures".

Pavlo Beznosiuk introduces the viola d'amore which he plays as part of the AAM's recording of JS Bach's St John Passion.
Pre-order your copy of the AAM's landmark recording here:
http://www.aam.co.uk/stjohnpassion

The Academy of Ancient Music rehearses Act IV of Monteverdi's first opera L'Orfeo, ahead of a performance at the Barbican Centre on Saturday 28 September 2013.
John Mark Ainsley Orfeo
Sophie Bevan Euridice
Orpha Phelan stage director
Richard Egarr music director
Academy of Ancient Music
Choir of the AAM
Tickets from http://www.barbican.org.uk/music/event-detail.asp?ID=14450

Details of the Academy of Ancient Music's new recording, 'Birth of the symphony: Handel to Haydn', exploring developments in the symphony during the eighteenth century.
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BBC Radio 3 Disc of the Week
★★★★★ Classical Music Magazine
"A striking success" BBC Music Magazine
"Crisp, spirited, full of imaginative detail" The Observer
"Thrilling, uplifting" The Arts Desk
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Find out more and order at http://www.aam.co.uk/birthofthesymphony
Download from iTunes (with exclusive track) at https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/birth-symphony-handel-to-haydn/id739233333
Watch the trailer at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C83X9dBSgcU

A documentary film to accompany 'Birth of the symphony: Handel to Haydn', the latest release from the Academy of Ancient Music.
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BBC Radio 3 Disc of the Week
★★★★★ Classical Music Magazine
"A striking success" BBC Music Magazine
"Crisp, spirited, full of imaginative detail" The Observer
"Thrilling, uplifting" The Arts Desk
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Find out more and order at http://www.aam.co.uk/birthofthesymphony
Download from iTunes (with exclusive track) at https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/birth-symphony-handel-to-haydn/id739233333
Watch the trailer at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C83X9dBSgcU